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[ US /ˈæŋkʃəs, ˈæŋʃəs/ ]
[ UK /ˈæŋʃəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. eagerly desirous
    dying to hear who won
    anxious to see the new show at the museum
  2. causing or fraught with or showing anxiety
    spent an anxious night waiting for the test results
    cast anxious glances behind her
    those nervous moments before takeoff
    an unquiet mind

How To Use anxious In A Sentence

  • Police are anxious to trace two men seen leaving the house just before 8am.
  • I am not a bit anxious about my battles, If I am anxious I don't fight them, I wait until I am ready. 
  • Even while he was missing, those uncertain hours of anxious speculation and dismal journalism, she had assumed Maxwell would be found boomingly alive, having spent the whole time enjoying the amorous advances of a short-sighted minke whale. Country of the Blind
  • As time passes, around 2,000 women involved have gradually died, with only 30 of them still alive - still anxious about the possible end and that they may never hear the government's true-hearted confession.
  • Her face was anxious and sorrowful.
  • Savona also includes several family recipes from Malta, such as Nanna's rice salad, which I'm anxious to try. BellaOnline - The Voice of Women
  • Mickey-boy, 'if the Joy Lady is so anxious to get the baby, and sew its clothes herself, why I'll just let her,' so I did _let_ her, but it took some time to make them, so I had to wait to bring it 'til tonight. Michael O'Halloran
  • The bereaved are normally anxious for a speedy conclusion in these tragic cases.
  • his voice was gruff but there was still a hint of anxiousness in his tone.
  • None of us wanted to ‘need’ cigarettes almost desperately and to feel insecure and anxious without them.
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